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| Three Choirs Competition, Worcester with Samuel Hudson (Picture: Dale Hodgetts) |
The Three Choirs Competition has introduced the preliminary programme for subsequent yr’s pageant which takes place from 24 to 31 July 2027 in Worcester beneath creative director Samuel Hudson. The pageant opens with Britten’s Conflict Requiem with soloists soprano Elizabeth Watts, tenor Peter Hoare, and baritone David Stout, and the ultimate live performance options Elgar’s The Mild of Life, written for the Three Choirs Competition in Worcester in 1896.
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| Gavin Higgins (Picture: Joseph Wong) |
Different key performances embody Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, marking the bicentenary of his loss of life, with soloists Katie Trethewey, Helen Charlston, Nick Pritchard, and James Atkinson. One other anniversary being marked is the three hundredth anniversary of Handel’s Coronation Anthems carried out by the three Cathedral Choirs. The Three Choirs Competition Youth Choir will carry out Haydn’s Nelson Mass alongside a brand new work by Cecilia McDowall, Songs of Exile.
2027 can be Gavin Higgins‘s second yr as Three Choirs Competition Affiliate Composer. For 2026, the Competition premiered his Gloucester Service on the Competition Evensong which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and out there on BBC Sounds (for 30 days).
Higgins’s new work His Salt Pores and skin can be carried out on the 2027 Competition by the BBC Nationwide Orchestra of Wales, conductor Duncan Ward, mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons, and countertenor Cameron Shahbazi, alongside RVW’s A Sea Symphony. The world premiere of a Competition fee by Dobrinka Tabakova would be the centrepiece of a live performance that includes Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, and the primary public efficiency of a brand new realisation of Elgar’s Piano Concerto by David Owen Norris.
Worcester-based Ian Venables’s Portrait of a Thoughts can be carried out by tenor Gwilym Bowen, and different up to date items within the Competition embody Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles and a brand new fee by Eric Whitacre for Tenebrae to be carried out alongside Howells’s Requiem.
The Competition has additionally introduced Grace-Evangeline Mason as the brand new Affiliate Composer from 2027 to 2029. Mason’s orchestral work The Imagined Forest (2021) opened the 2024 Three Choirs Competition in Worcester, carried out by Samuel Hudson.
Full particulars from the Three Choirs Competition web site.
